166 STRETTON GRANDISON. HEREFORDSHIRE. [KELLY'S dows erected as memorials to members of the Poole family: Eggleton township, I mile north, is, under the Divided the church affords sittings for 200. The register dates Parishes Act, part of this parish, maintaining its own poor. from the year 1558. The living is a vicarage, with the The land belongs to the Rev. William Poole M.A., J.P. who chapelry of Ashperton attached, average tithe rent-charge is lord of the manor. The area is 738 acres; rateable £270, joint net yearly value £367, including 160 acres of value, £930; the population in 1891 was 124. glebe with residence, in the gift of W. T. M. Baskerville Pa.rish Clerk, Arthur Burnett. esq. and held since 1891 by the Rev. Charles Ernest Hopton Letters through Ledbury arrive about 9.30 a.m. Tar- M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge: the Rev. Edward rington is the nearest money order office; telegraph office Robert Burroughes M.A. of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, is at Stoke Edith railway station curate, and resides at Ashperton. The charities amount to Wall Letter Box cleared at 3.30 p.m. week days only. £ IS yearly. Homend, a handsome mansion, situated in a PuBlic Elementary Schooli, with residence for mistress, delightful park, is the property of the Rev. William Poole built in 1874 for Stretton & Eggleton, for 65 children & :M. A., J.P. of Hentland, who is the principal landowner. now (1895) being enlarged; average attendance, 53; it The soil is mostly heavy; subsoil, clay. The chief crops has an endowment of £4, derived from the part interest are wheat, beans, hops and fruit. The area is 841 acres; of a sum of £128 IOS. left in 1713 by Lady Langley, the rateable value, £1,466; the population in 1891 was 78. remainder being for books; Miss Lucy Moreton, mistress STRETTON GRANDISON. Smith Henry Meredith, farmer & hop Cole James, carpenter grower, Townsend house Daffurn Thomas, mason Hopton Rev. Chas.Ernest M. A. Vicarage Taylor James, well sinker, pump ma. Dowding Isabella (Mrs.), shopkeeper Poole Rev. Prebendary Wm. M.A., J.P. carpenter &; wheelwright Hill Arthur Edward, farmer & hop (perpetnal curate of Hentland), grower, Lower Eggleton court Homend EGGLETON. Lewis Edward John, farmer & hop Deem Thomas, blacksmith Jones Edwin, Blackway grower, Upper Eggleton court Lewis ThosJarmer&hop grower,New ho COMMERCIAL. Pudge James, farmer & hop grower, . Pitt Stephen, farmer &li hop grower, Brewer Thomas, farmer, The Hute Moor court Stretton court Burnett Arthur, painter & plumber Smith Elizh. (Mrs.), farmer, Old grove STRETTON SUGWAS is a parish and scattered vii- D.L., J.P. The Governors of Guy's Hospital are lords of lage on the road from Hereford to Hay, 4 miles north-west the manor. The principal landowners are Guy's Hospital. from Hereford and 2 south-east from Credenhill station on the Rev. George Edward Ashley M.A. rector, H. F. Russell the Hereford and Brecon section of the Midland railway, in esq. Westonbury. Pembridge, E. Farr esq. NoIse Court. the Southern division of thecounty, hundred of Grimsworth, Stanton-on-Arrow, and His Honor Judge R. W. Ingham Hereford union, petty sessional division and county court D.L.• J.P. The soil is loam; subsoil, gravel. The chief district, rural deanery of Weston and archdeaconry and crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 1,389 acres; diocese of Hereford. Under the Divided Parishes Act rateable value, £2,620; the population in 1891 was 350. (1882) Gobbetts, a detached part of this parish was trans- Swainshill is a hamlet, about a quarter of a mile south ferred to Credenhill, and by Local Government Board Order from the church. (1884) Sugwas was transferred from Eaton Bishop to Parish Clerk, Clement Dawes. Suetton Sugwas. The old Norman church, dedicated to Post Office, Swainshill (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should St. Mary Magdalen, was entirely rebuilt on a new site in be addressed R.S.O. Herefordshire).-James Watkins, 1877, from designs by Mr. Cheiake, architect, of Hereford, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive at6.l5 a.m.; dispatched, the whole of the old work being carefully incorporated and 6.25 p.m. White Cross road (Hereford) is the nearest including some fine Norman remains and the 17th century money order & Hereford (head office) tha nearest tele- tower, built of brick and timber, which was taken down and graph office. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid rebuilt in its present position: it is in the Decorated style Post Office, Stretton Sugwas.-Mrs. Elizabeth Sandford, and consists of chancel, nave, north aisle. south porch and a sub-postmistress. Letters arrive through Hereford at 7 western tower oontaining 4 bells: the entrance to the church- a.m. ; dispatched at 6.25 p.m. Postal orders are issued yard is through a handsome lych gate. The register dates here, but not paid. Hereford is the nearest money order from the year 1733 : there are sittings for 200 persons. lhe & Burghill the nearest telegraph office living is a rectory, commuted tithe rent-charge £200; net National School (mixed), with residence for mistress at- present yearly value £106, with 21 acres of glebe and resi- tached, for 90 children j average attendance, 63; Mrs. dence, in the gift of and held since 1884 by the Rev. George Luuisa Dawe, mistress Edward Ashley M.A. of Oriel College, Oxford, Prebendary Carriers (passing through Swainshill).-Jones, Burton & of Hereford. Cider and perry are made here. Sugwas Catherine Taylor, to Hereford, wed. & sat. returning Court is the seat of His Honor Judge Robert Wood Ingham same days Ashley Rev. Prebendary George Edwd. Sunderland Mrs. The Elms Jones Charles, farmer, The Lakes M.A. Rectory Yeomans John Haynes LawrenceGeo. Wm.plumber &c.Sugwas Hawkins Francis J.P. Sugwas farm, Lewis Charles, Travellers' Rest P.H Sugwas COMMERCIAL. Lloyd Mary (Mrs.), Kite's Nest P.H Ingham. His Honor Judge RobertWood Andrews Thomas,farmer,Strettoncourt Parsons James, carpenter D.L., J.P. Sugwas court Hawkins Francis J.P. farmer. Sugwas Williams William, grocer &blacksmith, Kenny-Herbert John, Stretton house farm, Sugwas Swainshill Ronalds HoghJ.P.Edgcombe,Swainshill James George, Boat inn Yeomans John Haynes, farmer SUTTON is a parish about Ii miles east from the Here- Bcription. The register dates from the year 1586. The ford and Leominster and Ii west from the Hereford and living is a rectory, gross yearly valuefrom tithe rent-charge Bromyard roads, on the rh'er Lugg, 4i miles north from £193, with 19 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Hereford, I east from Moreton station on the Shrewsbury and held since 1847 by the Rev. George Henry Johnstone and Hereford (Great Western and London and North M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, who is also incumbent Western joint) railway and I48~ from London, in the of St. Alban's, Macdonald river, diocese of Newcastle, Aus­ Southern division of the county, Broxash hundred, Hereford tralia, where he resides. The charities are of £7 9s. ud. petty sessional division, union and county court district, yearly value, and are distributed in money and coals, in­ rural deanery of Weston and archdeaconry and diocese of eluding H. B. Lingen's of £4 6s. 8d. left in 1708; Capt. Hereford. By an Act passed in 1876 Sutton St. Michaeland Herring's of Ss. left in 1712 and Mary Wittingslow's of Sutton St. Nicholas were formed into one civil parish, and £2 I8s. 3d. left in 1828. The ancient earthworks called under Local Government Board Orders (1884 and 1887) "Sutton Walls" formed part of a Roman camp, covering detached parts of Felton, Ullingwick and Ode P:rchard about 30 acres and encompassed by a single ditch, with four were transferred to this parish. The church of St. Michael, entrances: it snbsequently became famous as the site of the restored about 1865, is a building of stone, consisting of palace of the Kings of Mercia: here dwelt King Offa, who chancel, nave, north porch, and a small western turret con- married Quendreda, daughter of Charles the Great, King of taining 2 bells. The register dates from the year 1678. the Franks; Offa's daughter, Elfrida, was sought in mar­ The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value from 29 acres riage by Ethelbert, King of the East Angles: but the latter, of glebe £64. in the gift of the trustees of the late J. P. while visiting here in 792, was murdered by Quendreda and Williams esq. and held since 1876 by the Rev. David buried at Marden, but afterwards removed to Hereford and Arthur Fosbroke Saunders T.A.K.C.L. who is also curate being subsequently canonised became the patron saint of in sole charge of Sutton St. Nicholas. the cathedral. Mrs. Evans, of Moreton Court, who is lady The church of St. Nicholas is a building of stone, in the of the manor, John Newman esq. the trustees of Francis Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave. south transept, Edward Brace esq. of Catisfield Lodge, Fareham, Hants, north porch and an embattled western tower containing 6 Joseph Carless, Mrs. Vale, and G. Child esq. The Lawns. bells: in 1880 the 4 bells then in use were recast and 2 Withington, are chief landowners. The soil is loamy and others added, the expense being defrayed by general sub- gravelly j subsoil, gravel and mar!' The principal cropS.